Profile: Ron Rienstra on Planning Contemporary Worship
While directing student-planned and -led worship services at Calvin College and Fuller Theological Seminary, or while leading worship workshops, Ron Rienstra has sometimes met “worship leaders who get frustrated with other people’s desire to plan carefully. Those frustrated have not themselves yet done much worship leading.”
August 18, 2006
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4 min read
Planning Contemporary Worship Services
Do you know how to look beyond the style of a "traditional" or "contemporary" worship service to find its worship vision, structure, and theology? Ron Rienstra says it's a question more worship planners should ask and answer. A feature story exploring the planning for Contemporary Worship services.
August 18, 2006
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6 min read
How Worship Service Structure Reveals Theology
The way you structure a worship service is important, in large part, because the structure reveals your theology. This is true whether or not you’ve thought about your worship’s theological revelations.
August 18, 2006
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7 min read
Eschatology: Our hope for a new heaven and new earth
How does your story fit into God's story? The way you answer this question likely influences what you believe about heaven. And your view of heaven makes a big difference in how you live and worship. A feature story exploring Eschatology: our hope for a new heaven and a new earth.
July 7, 2006
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10 min read
How to Include More Heaven in Your Worship Music
Songs often sink into worshipers hearts and influence how they understand and experience life. As you include more songs that mention heaven, pay attention to the beliefs that permeate them.
July 7, 2006
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3 min read
Ideas for Using Creeds in Worship
Here are ideas for how to incorporate the creeds into a series of services, music, art, and specific places within the order of worship.
March 31, 2006
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3 min read
Worship - taking a closer look
To preach about worship, what text would you preach? Where in Scripture would you look?
March 6, 2006
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1 min read
We Believe...: A service based on the Nicene Creed
The Sunday after Pentecost is often called Trinity Sunday in recognition that all three persons of the Trinity have now been remembered and celebrated in the great festivals of the Christian year.
March 6, 2006
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1 min read
Eugene Peterson on God's Standing Invitation: Eat This Book
Whether translating the Bible from original Hebrew and Greek or writing spiritual theology, Eugene Peterson says he has one aim--getting Scripture into the hearts, minds, arms, legs, and mouths of men and women. A feature story exploring Eugene Peterson's view on Christians reading and internalizing the Bible.
March 3, 2006
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9 min read
Trinity Sunday and the Call to Worship
Why should we observe Trinity Sunday when it isn’t a clear event in Scripture?
March 1, 2006
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1 min read
God in Three Persons
A service of hymns and readings for Trinity Sunday.
March 1, 2006
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1 min read
Trinity Matters: The Trinity needs to be named regularly in our worship
I wonder if the theological slush of congregational life in North America has left many ministers and congregations without a trinitarian vocabulary and doctrine actively shaping, challenging, and anchoring our faith. “Bless eternity” or “Blessed Trinity”? Does it really matter?
March 1, 2006
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1 min read
